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Article: Tlingit heritage etched into glass art.(NW Arts&Life)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Michael Upchurch; Seattle Times arts writer
The way Preston Singletary tells it, he didn't find his way into glass art.
Glass art found its way into him.
Singletary, who grew up in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, had his heart set on being a musician when he was in his teens. But glassmaking, his "day job" as he saw it, turned out to be his true calling.
Take a look at "Echoes, Fire, and Shadows," his retrospective show at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, and the idea that glassmaking was a fallback career for the 46-year-old becomes a little dumbfounding.
Even his apprentice work is exquisite. He may have been ...